"Bottles and teapot" still life

Still life with bottles and teapot by Gregory Avoyan
oil pastels on blue paper

Here is my new graphic work above, its again a still life, a genre that i'm most experienced in. I used Talens Van Gogh oil pastels for it. Oil pastel was once my favourite medium, but its somehow forgotten by me now. What i love about it is that it reminds a paint a lot but keeps spontaneity of drawing. It even may be applied with palette knife, or - in my case - an old plastic card, which i use sometimes for making some sharp and straight lines. 

Also, when i started this work, i had no actual idea on what to draw right now, but somehow my mind returned to some my older works, which i used as a base idea. Here are those sources of inspiration:

Still life with bottles

oil on panel, 2013

Red still life

oil on panel, 2011

It'd be interesting to know how often do you use your older works for an inspiration, do you ever return to topics you already drew or painted?

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